Winks Panorama

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

From the record

“Winks Panorama, also known as Winks Lodge, was a hotel near Pinecliffe, Colorado catering to African-American tourists during the early and middle 20th century. The lodge was built in the Lincoln Hills Country Club, which was at the time the only African-American resort in the western United States.”
Wikipedia article Winks Panorama, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Gilpin County · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW of Pinecliffe, Pinecliffe, 80422
Category. building
Census division. Central City
National Register reference number. 80000901 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

278 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 278 fires within 5 miles of Winks Panorama between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,178 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 6 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	161
Recreation and ceremony	59
Natural	27
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Other causes	2
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nederland Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
8 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	SITE 11 FIRE
8 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nederland Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
8 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nederland Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	925A
7 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	355C
6 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-Boulder District	not named

Every fire recorded in Gilpin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 182 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 182 workings within 5 miles of Winks Panorama: 129 past producers, 30 occurrences, 16 producers, 3 prospects. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Tungsten, Gold, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Big Moon	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Blue Vein, Winnebago, Campania, Deadwood	Gold, Tungsten	Occurrence	Gold
Champion, Lone Star	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Clark Tunnel	Tungsten, Silver, Gold	Unknown
Cougar, Greyback	Molybdenum, Tungsten	Occurrence	Molybdenite
Ellis Lode	Gold, Garnet, Copper, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Fairheaven	Emery, Silver	Past Producer
Golder-Passarella Claims	Uranium	Prospect
Iowa Girl Lode	Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Lucky Strike, Last Nickel	Tungsten, Lead, Zinc	Producer	Ferberite, Galena

Every working recorded in Gilpin County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Winks Panorama (Boundary Increase)	under 500 feet	2014
	Bain Cabin	1.9 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80000901 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gilpin County	All 8 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.